The plot builder can be used to set various properties of the plot before its creation. Right-click on your expression, then select Plots > Plot Builder.  Select 2-D plot.  Then click on the Options button to bring up the plot options dialog. From there, you can set the style, range, color, and other options. See Figure 2.

Choose a color from the drop down list or click Custom to select a custom color using swatches, HSB, or RGB.

Tip: You can preview your plot from the Plot Builder window.  You can also choose to return the plot or the command used to create the plot.  This is helpful if you want to reuse or create variations of your plot.

You can pass in a list of colors to the plot command. For a single curve,

If you have more then one curve, put the curves in a list, and the colors in a corresponding list:

The color=colorname option can be used with most plotting commands, in addition to the plot command itself.

Note: The color names are given as strings in double quotes ("Blue").  This is the new form for color names. In earlier releases, a more limited number of colors were available and were given as symbols, often were enclosed in quotes ('blue') to avoid evaluation. For backwards compatibility, this form will still work with the old color names, but new color names must be strings.

For the complete list of valid color names, including the mapping from the old names to the new names, see plot/colornames.

Tip: Maple also accepts the keyword "colour" as a valid alternative spelling.